Famous quotes containing the words hero and/or cult:
“The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)